Borussia Dortmund is a German football club based in Dortmund with a strong brand and mass following. It has over 550 fan clubs worldwide and 46,000 club members. The club's stadium, Signal Iduna Park, has a capacity of over 80,000 and regularly sells out for matches. Dortmund has developed a deep bond and sense of family with its supporters, known as "Echte Liebe" or "True Love". The club's marketing emphasizes its local roots and commitment to the city and region of Dortmund.
7. BVB is a real football club with a 100-year tradition. Founded and with its roots firmly in Dortmund, it is
influenced by a particular BVB is markedby a very particular intensity. Everything is full on. An inner
tension and compressed power flows through everything; it is large, deep and strong. The club is at the
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heart of a city and a region within which many peoples and cultures are gathered and entwined
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influenced by dynamic changes. There is a great energy present here, which overcomes the people and
floods their hearts. For an instant or for a long time. BVB encapsulates all this, blas辿 neutrality isnt an
option. BVB does not leave you unaffected, but assaults the very peaks of feeling and emotion.
Our intensity forges an unsurpassable football
experience
10. BVB is a real football club with a 100-year tradition. Founded and with its roots firmly in Dortmund, it is
influenced by a particular Westphalian identity as well as the culture of the region. BVB is proud of its
heritage and history and stays true to its core virtues: sincerity and constancy. BVB thus has the ability
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to always return to those virtues even when the path has been difficult. This allows the BVB brand to be
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ranked alongside the most noble of brands: It defines much of what people see as virtuous and worthy.
Our genuineness allows people to trust in us and
embrace us with true love.
13. BVB has the ability to attract the masses and immediately establish a deep and lasting bond. BVB
becomes home and family. BVB is a magnet attracting enormous numbers of people; local, regional
and national. BVB enchant the most diverse sections of the community, irrespective of age, sex or
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social status. It is a mass of people that in itself attracts yet more. It is a mass of people that BVB can
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tie to itself tightly and forever. The relationship that bonds the club with the masses is deep and
intensive and lasts a lifetime.
Our Bonding Force means that our club is at once
home and family for many people.
16. BVB possesses a heartfelt will to achieve great things and acquire importance. It is the natural
aspiration for success, acknowledgement of worth and love. It is not, though, a desire that quickly
becomes pompous and leads to alienation of love. For BVB the aspiration is to maximise potential and
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then attain yet more. BVBs self-image, dimension and prominence are moulded by it.
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Through our ambition we will achieve great things
and enjoy sporting successes.
18. Agenda
1.! Our strong brand
2.! Mass phenomenon
Borussia Dortmund
3.! SIGNAL IDUNA PARK
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19. 32.210.000
germans are aware of Borussia Dortmund and have a
clear picture of the brand!
Basis: representative sample; 603 individuals interested in football between 14 69 years
Source: SPORT+MARKT football monitor national 2010/11, 3rd wave
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20. 27.810.000
germans state sympathy for Borussia Dortmund!
Basis: representative sample; 603 individuals interested in football between 14 69 years
Source: SPORT+MARKT football monitor national 2010/11, 3rd wave
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21. 4.340.000
germans state to be a supporter of Borussia Dortmund!
Basis: representative sample; 603 individuals interested in football between 14 69 years
Source: SPORT+MARKT football monitor national 2010/11, 3rd wave
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22. Phenomenon Borussia Dortmund
550 fanclubs worldwide
46.000 club members
21 hours on screen time for sponsors on advertising boards
and logo walls
~ 1 billion contacts with the target group
193 hours television coverage around the Bundesliga matches
of Borussia Dortmund
~ around 8.5 billion contacts
Basis: viewers older than 14 years
Source: SPORT + MARKT AG
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23. Digital media
bvb.de
PIs 18.016.115
Visits 5.040.532
Facebook
Friends 430.500
Twitter
Follower > 5.000
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24. Agenda
1.! Our strong brand
2.! Mass phenomenon
Borussia Dortmund
3.! SIGNAL IDUNA PARK
Football intense
26. Initial Situation
Football means everything in and around
Dortmund!
Borussia Dortmund means home and family!
The relation between supporters and the club
can be described best as Echte Liebe!
! season tickets are passed from
generation to generation
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27. Marketing campaigns
We give it all!
Everyone where he belongs.
!! Online & offline club media
!! Local media
!! Media cooperations
!! Presence in and around Dortmund
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29. Average attendance
Continuous increase over the last six years
2006/07 72.652
2007/08 72.510
2008/09 74.801
2009/10 77.246
Average attendance 10/11: 79.151
no. 2 in Europe!
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30. Season 2010/11
51.200 season ticket holders
european record!
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